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Catholic Universities in the Crosshairs? March 11, 2025
With regime change come attacks on universities. History is filled with precedents—Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, Chile in 1973, Cambodia in the late 1970s, and Viktor Urban’s Hungary in recent years. Leaders who seize power when democracy ...
The Tusk Coalition’s War on Poland’s Catholic Identity March 11, 2025
The government of Donald Tusk is escalating its assault on Poland’s Catholic identity, targeting religious education, traditional values, and freedom of speech. Through radical educational reforms, speech restrictions, and legal maneuvers, the ruling...
Know Thyself: a Lenten Education March 07, 2025
“What are you doing for Lent?”It’s a good question. Parents often ask their children. Friends ask each other. If we haven’t been preparing ourselves during the “pre-Lent” period found in many Catholic rites, we may well be asking ourselves this right...
Jewish Learning Forced Underground, Again March 06, 2025
‘Welcome to our bunker,” our professor and historian, Avi Shilon, jokingly proclaims as his students pass through the security checkpoint into our newly imposed underground classroom.Devoid of daylight and guarded by a six-foot-tall security officer,...
T.S. Eliot and the Need for Lent March 05, 2025
A century ago, T.S. Eliot put this Lenten faith into poetry. Raised in a Unitarian home and educated at elite institutions where liberalism was fashionable, he nevertheless felt a gnawing hunger deep in his soul. After WWI, his modernist poetry used ...
Why Christians Should Support Abolishing Dept. of Education February 25, 2025
Blustery, tempestuous, firestorm. These words describe the debate swirling around the future of the Department of Education (DOE). Would only a rebellious, torch-bearing radical advocate for abolishing this department? Can a Christian, who aspires to...
The Soul Is More Than Software February 20, 2025
The recent Vatican statement on artificial intelligence, Antiqua et nova, represents an important new contribution to Catholic social thought. Jointly published by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Culture and Educatio...
Wheaton College Clash Over Russell Vought Escalates February 19, 2025
After Wheaton posted its Feb. 7 statement asking for prayers for Vought, alumni and others answered on social media, objecting to Vought’s work as an architect of Project 2025, the proposed agenda for a second Trump administration, and as a past and ...
Young Adult Sexlessness Skyrocketed in the Last Decade February 14, 2025
The share of young adults who say they have not had sex in the last year has skyrocketed in the past decade, while the virginity rate for young adult males has more than doubled, according to a recent data analysis. Examining findings from the Nation...
The Crisis and Promise of Fatherhood February 14, 2025
Few societal institutions are as vital yet as overlooked as fatherhood. The moral, economic, and spiritual implications of engaged fatherhood are profound, yet modern policy, legal structures, and cultural narratives often fail to recognize its essen...
Destiny in Disaster? February 13, 2025
Have you ever met a professor of comparative religion? I’ve often wondered whether these academics have really studied all religions and if they believe in any of them.In this week’s Torah reading, Yitro, we are introduced to the world’s first profes...
An Interview with Jake Hiserman February 12, 2025
JMC Resident Historian Elliott Drago sat down with JMC Network Scholar Jake Hiserman to discuss his work on Southern Christian colleges and the moral and intellectual implications of higher education during the nineteenth-century. Dr. Hiserman earned...
What Advocates Want Churches to Know About Defending Migrants February 06, 2025
Within hours of coming into office, President Donald Trump rescinded a 14-year policy prohibiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from arresting migrants near “sensitive locations,” including schools, hospitals, and places of worship. Wi...
God Made Us Curious February 05, 2025
Nurturing them to grow strong in their own intellectual formation and opening a world in which they could wonder at God’s handiwork became my primary goal. Children allowed a wonder-filled life will cultivate inner strength, a confidence in their own...
Outlook Apocalyptic for UK Theology Schools February 04, 2025
When the Association of Bible College Principals in the United Kingdom convened in the summer of 2024, administrators came away with some pretty dire predictions. Anthony Royle, head of the King’s Evangelical Divinity School in Southeast England, tol...
Losing Faith in Higher Education February 03, 2025
Attention all alumni! Tomorrow (FRIDAY, JULY 19) is the last day for the sale of religious items/statues.”Throughout the summer of 2024, an alumni page for Notre Dame College in South Euclid, Ohio, advertised the sale of countless pieces from the col...
Reimagining Seminary as Neo-Monastic Cohorts January 30, 2025
Theological education and pastoral training are in a state of flux. Many seminaries are slashing budgets and laying off faculty in response to declining enrollment. This is just the beginning. All institutions of higher education are bracing themselv...
Why Persecution and Pride Go Hand in Hand for Jews January 30, 2025
For Jewish educators, this might be a message moving forward for all that we do. While in recent times, many in the community have latched on to the pithy phrase of Jewish life needing to be “more about the joy than the oy,” I am fairly certain that ...
Why Louisiana's Ten Commandments Case is Good for the U.S. January 30, 2025
Yet this framing of the debate — pitting religious heritage against secular neutrality — may miss an opportunity for greater understanding. The Ten Commandments hold profound significance across Judaism, Christianity and Islam, with each tradition of...
New SCOTUS Case Would Force Govt to Create Religious Public Schools January 28, 2025
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear two cases that are likely to revolutionize the relationship between church and state, at least in the context of public schools.Both cases, known as Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Dr...
Supreme Court to Hear Oklahoma Religious Charter School Case January 27, 2025
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider a high-profile case that could open the door to allowing public dollars to directly fund religious schools.The widely watched case out of Oklahoma could transform the line between church and state in edu...
Catholic U Facing $30M Deficit, Considers Changes to Operations January 21, 2025
The Catholic University of America in Washington will look into consolidating some academic departments, as part of a recently announced effort to address a $30 million budget deficit.In a Jan. 17 email to the university community, Aaron Dominguez, t...
Louisiana Officials Face Uphill Battle to Defend Ten Commandments Law January 15, 2025
The state of Louisiana is having trouble attributing the motivations of the Ten Commandments law to historical significance, pushing aside any educational significance it is meant to have.Much of Attorney General Liz Murril's argument relies on the T...
Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s Doctrine of Christian Warfighting January 15, 2025
Donald trump has nominated Army Major Pete Hegseth to be the next Secretary of Defense. The Princeton-educated Fox News TV personality and former soldier served in Iraq and Afghanistan before resigning his commission in protest over the army’s suppos...
How Religious Schools Became a Billion-Dollar Drain on Public Education January 13, 2025
On a Thursday morning last May, about a hundred people gathered in the atrium of the Ohio capitol building to join in Christian worship. The “Prayer at the Statehouse” was organized by an advocacy group called the Center for Christian Virtue, whose g...
